Engineering Team Lead

We’re looking for an R&D Team Lead to take technical and people leadership over one of our backend teams. In this role, you’ll combine hands-on backend engineering with leading, mentoring, and growing a small team of engineers, while shaping the architecture of systems that protect millions of users worldwide.

If you enjoy building scalable backend systems, making sound technical decisions, and helping engineers grow - this role gives you real ownership and impact.

Protecting one billion people from cyber threats? If you find this proposition more exciting than scary, come on board and grow with us.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, development, and maintenance of backend services and APIs
• Own technical decisions related to architecture, scalability, performance, and security
• Stay hands-on and actively contribute to the codebase
• Lead, mentor, and support a backend team of 4 - 6 engineers
• Ensure high-quality and timely delivery through planning and prioritization
• Review code and enforce engineering standards and best practices
• Collaborate closely with Product, and other engineering teams
• Participate in hiring, onboarding, and career development of your team

Requirements

• Experience in a scale-up or fast-growing product company
• Strong experience as a Senior Backend Engineer with leadership exposure
• Proven experience with leading and mentoring engineers
• Solid backend development skills (e.g. Go, Java, Node.js, Python)
• Experience with API design and distributed / microservices architectures
• Good understanding of cloud-based production environments

Nice to have

• Background in cybersecurity, networking, or large-scale systems
• Experience with CI/CD, observability, and incident response
• Interest in shaping engineering processes and long-term architecture